Felothar the Steadfast by Wast3

Format: Commander

Commander: Felothar the Steadfast

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is an Abzan Toughness-Matters combat engine led by Felothar the Steadfast. It turns low-cost, high-toughness defender creatures into efficient beaters that assign combat damage using their toughness rather than power. By deploying resilient walls in the opening turns, the deck ramps quickly with cards like Overgrown Battlement and Axebane Guardian before casting Felothar or redundant enablers like Assault Formation and Doran, Besieged by Time. Once assembled, Felothar converts high toughness into massive card advantage and board-wide combat pressure. The deck leverages one-sided board wipes like Slaughter the Strong and Dusk // Dawn to decimate opposing boards while keeping its own defenders intact. Finishers such as Tower Defense, Baldin, Century Herdmaster, and evasion enablers like Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa close out games by dealing lethal chunks of combat damage over Turns 5 through 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arbor Adherent
  • 1 Arboreal Grazer
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Assault Formation
  • 1 Axebane Guardian
  • 1 Baldin, Century Herdmaster
  • 1 Bedrock Tortoise
  • 1 Behind the Scenes
  • 1 Betor, Kin to All
  • 1 Blight Pile
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brave the Sands
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Carven Caryatid
  • 1 Colfenor's Urn
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Crystal Barricade
  • 1 Deceptive Landscape
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Doran, Besieged by Time
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expel the Interlopers
  • 1 Fecund Greenshell
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Felothar the Steadfast
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Ghalta the Immovable
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper
  • 1 Indomitable Ancients
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jaws of Defeat
  • 1 Last March of the Ents
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Overgrown Battlement
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield
  • 1 Rampart Architect
  • 1 Reunion of the House
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Selesnya Signet
  • 1 Sheltering Word
  • 1 Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa
  • 1 Slaughter the Strong
  • 1 Smile at Death
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stalwart Shield-Bearers
  • 1 Stoneskin
  • 1 Sungrass Prairie
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Caryatid
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Tip the Scales
  • 1 Tower Defense
  • 1 Towering Titan
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Tree of Redemption
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Walking Bulwark
  • 1 Wall of Blood
  • 1 Wall of Blossoms
  • 1 Wall of Omens
  • 1 Wall of Roots
  • 1 Wall of Souls
  • 1 Weathered Sentinels
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Will of the Abzan
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Wound Reflection